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Reinvent Immigration Policy

How do we transform concern over current immigration policy into comprehensive reform?Roundtable anchor Luis Ubinas, the former president of the Ford Foundation, made the case that immigration reform is in the best interests of Republicans and Democrats. An all-star group of leaders in this field roughed out in real-time the best strategy to quickly carry out that approach out. In the end, one of the most powerful arguments for immigration reform is to make the human case. One of our participants, Jose Antonio Vargas, came to the U.S. as a 12-year-old from the Philippines, and only later found out he did not have the proper documents. Vargas went on to become a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist. In 2011 he publicly outed himself as an undocumented immigrant, and has been campaigning for reform ever since.